The Creation Of Pop

The genre pop music was created during the mid-1950s and was at the time considered a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll which now is referred to as rock music.
It has a focus on commercial mainstream recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music, and utilizing key technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.